"We are fortunate that incidents like this are relatively rare, nonetheless when I visited Tesco this week I felt shocked and saddened.

"As local councillors we always encourage anyone with information about a crime to report this to the police.

"We are now being served in our community by an excellent team of police officers and we can only hope that the perpetrators are found and brought before a court to ensure no further incidents of this nature occur in Edenthorpe or elsewhere."

A Tesco spokesperson said: "We can confirm that a burglary took place at our store last week and we are currently assisting the police with their investigations into this incident.”

They added that the store reopened the following morning after the raid at the normal time.